Election update, 21 April: nurse training and a row over the SNP

Most of the papers today have covered the tragic deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean on their front pages.

The prospect of the SNP being in coalition leads the political stories on the front page. The Guardian's front page story is on Conservative Lord Forsyth's criticism of the Prime Minister's reactions to the SNP and Labour, and the i paper does the same. The Daily Telegraph and the Times both lead on former prime minister John Major's warnings of 'mayhem' if a Labour government is propped by the SNP.

As well as this story the Daily Mail leads on an investigation into the taxes of NHS managers.

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